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Report on the subject of introducing pure water into the city of Boston (1834)

Author: Baldwin, Loammi, 1780-1838
Volume: No. 1
Subject: Water-supply; Water-supply
Publisher: Boston : John H. Eastburn, city printer
Language: English
Call number: 39999064280009
Digitizing sponsor: Boston Public Library
Book contributor: Boston Public Library
Collection: USGovernmentDocuments; bostonpubliclibrary; americana; additional_collections

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Bound volume includes: 1. Report on the subject of introducing pure water into the city of Boston -- 2. [Report of committee appointed to inquire into possible water sources for the city] -- 3. Report of the commissioners appointed ... to devise a plan for supplying the city of Boston with pure water -- 4. Pure water -- 5. Papers relating to the introduction of pure water -- 6. Address of the mayor to the City Council of Boston, January 7, 1839 -- 7. Soft water -- 8. Statement of evidence before the Committee of the Legislature -- 9. Thoughts about water -- 10. Report of the commissioners appointed under the order of the City Council, August 26, 1844 -- 11. Petition of the stockholders of Spot Pond Aqueduct Company -- 12. Petition of the stockholders of Spot Pond Aqueduct Company -- 13. Arguments and statements addressed to the members of the Legislature -- 14. Remarks on the present project of the city government for supplying the inhabitants of Boston with pure soft water -- 15. Proceedings before a joint special committee of the Massachusetts legislature ...for leave to introduce a supply of pure water into that city, from Long Pond -- 16. Fellow citizens: The question is to be taken and decided ... -- 17. Spot Pond -- 18. Remarks on supplying the city of Boston with pure water -- 19. Argument on behalf of Joseph Tilden and others ... powers to construct an aqueduct from Long Pond to the city ... -- 20. Further remarks on supplying the city of Boston with pure water -- 21. Further remarks on supplying the city of Boston with pure water -- 22. A review of the report of the water commissioners of 1845

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